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Name in the record

DINESH PRASAD

Also on ballots as Dinesh Prasad

IND·RLD·CPIMLL·JDU·JDS·NCP·JNP·LKDB·BJS

This is almost certainly more than one person

The dataset carries no candidate identifier, so every ballot line reading “DINESH PRASAD” is grouped by name alone. This record shows contests in 3 different states/UTs, stood in two different states in the same year, a 51-year span across 17 contests, 9 different parties — patterns a single career can’t produce. Read each block below as its own thread, and treat the totals as counts for the name, not for a person.

Ballot lines
17
1969–2020
Wins
2
Parties
9
States / UT
4
incl. Lok Sabha

Every contest

Grouped by state and by Lok Sabha — spelling variants are merged, and, without a candidate id, so are different people who share this name.

ElectionConstituencyPartyVotesShareResult
Bihar12 contests · 1969–2020 · 2 won
Bihar 2020237. NawadaIND5830.3%Lost · 11th
Bihar 201512. NarkatiaCPIMLL2,1771.3%Lost · 6th
Bihar 201518. MadhubanIND2,0751.5%Lost · 7th
Bihar 201090. MinapurJDU42,28634.1%Won
Bihar 2010169. SheikhpuraJDS2,3152.2%Lost · 9th
Bihar 200063. MinapurIND32,58628.4%Won
Bihar 2000186. JamalpurNCP2,1151.9%Lost · 8th
Bihar 199071. SursandIND3,4933.2%Lost · 4th
Bihar 1990128. NarpatganjJNP2,6582.9%Lost · 6th
Bihar 1990190. LakhisaraiIND2490.2%Lost · 10th
Bihar 1990204. FatwaLKDB3700.3%Lost · 15th
Bihar 19697. ChanpatiaBJS8,27224.3%Lost · 2nd
Uttar Pradesh2 contests · 2017–2017 · 0 won
Uttar Pradesh 2017237. ManikpurRLD4,6112.4%Lost · 6th
Uttar Pradesh 2017396. MirzapurRLD8460.4%Lost · 11th
Lok Sabha1 contest · 2009–2009 · 0 won
Lok Sabha 200964. SitamarhiIND2,5740.4%Lost · 15th
Madhya Pradesh2 contests · 1990–1993 · 0 won
Madhya Pradesh 199373. ChurahatIND3290.5%Lost · 9th
Madhya Pradesh 199073. ChurahatIND990.1%Lost · 11th